The Commodification of Man
It's been happening for a few years in my life; I wake up and go through my routine- I work, eat, exercise, and as the night approaches, I find myself not remembering what happened in the day. Sometimes entire weeks and months pass by and I have nothing but vague recollections of what actually happened: usually these are brief snippets of genuine human interaction- a smile from passerby, bargaining with a stranger, a driver possessed with road rage. But reflecting on my life rarely returns anything of substance to me, and I wanted to explore what the hell was going on. Being born in the United States in 2002, my life can broadly be split into two chapters (as of 2023, the year in which I am writing this article)- 1. pre-2012, and 2. post-2012. Why the year 2012? This was the year social media really took off, and mobile device usage, which once was largely a product for adults, became widely pervasive in youth culture. Middle schools and high schools transformed, seemingly overni...
